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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  13-Jun-1986 by Brian Grant (BG)

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NMI
Name GREY COPPER, KIM Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082G061
Status Showing NTS Map 082G12W
Latitude 049º 38' 58'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 115º 53' 36'' Northing 5500244
Easting 579886
Commodities Copper, Gold, Silver Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Grey Copper occurrence consists of a quartz vein hosted by Helikian Aldridge Formation (Purcell Supergroup) quartzites. The vein is directly beneath a diorite sill on the north side of Lone Pine Hill. The vein is less than 0.5 metres wide, strikes 045 degrees and dips about 45 degrees southeast into the hill. The showing is exposed by 15 metre incline shaft. Sulphides (tetrahedrite) occur as streaks and pods within the vein. Good assays from hand-cobbed ore were reported.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1920-N118
EMPR ASS RPT 1715, 2071
EMPR FIELDWORK 1980, p. 9
EMPR GEM 1969-346
EMPR OF *1988-14
GSC MAP 11-1960
GSC MEM 207, p. 55; 76
GSC SUM RPT 1932 Part AII, p. 98
EMPR PFD 810671

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